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Re: Creating a bitcoin wallet on electrum and trying to recover it on wasabi wallet
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ETFbitcoin
on 27/10/2021, 09:24:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (1)
"Didn't you use a passphrase when you were creating the wallet on Wasabi?"

This was the problem. Now it worked. thanks man Smiley

In case it's not obvious, seed generated by Wasabi is useless if you don't remember the passphrase. I would recommend you to write few hint of the passphrase alongside with the seed.

because Electrum seed (as it was mentioned are not BIP39) are generated in a way that they will not be a valid BIP39 mnemonic and should be rejected by wallets validating such seed phrases!

why would they want to avoid being complaint with a standard. That doesn't make any sense. did they just do a "roll your own" kind of thing and think it's better for some reason? almost every other wallet is compliant they aren't. go figure.

What they actuall do is creating new standard. Imagine BIP 39 and "Electrum Seed Version System" as HDMI and DisplayPort.